Lippe, Crystal D E
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Audience: Undergraduate. -- Dissertation: Thesis (B. A.). -- Algoma University, 2004. -- Submitted in partial fulfillment of course requirements for PSYC 4105. -- Includes figures. -- Contents: Literature review / Thesis.
The present study investigated how men and women rate young and elderly men on measures of social desirability and resourcefulness. This study provided a complement to previous research that examined how man and women rate young and elderly women on measures of social desirability and attractiveness. Introductory university students (n=40) and senior citizens (n=40) viewed photographs of a young and an elderly male targets and then rated both targets on measures of social desirability and resourcefulness. In accordance with earlier studies that used female targets, young men were rated higher in social desirability than elderly men. In addition elderly participants were more lenient in their evaluations and rated targets as higher in social desirability than the young participants did. In regards to resourcefulness, young women, elderly women and young men all saw no differences in the resourcefulness of young and elderly men. However, elderly men rated young men as more resourceful.
